ABSTRACT
Peter Campbell had been in his quiet, comfortable rooms at Jesus College, in a courtyard framed by sculptured stone cloisters, on the threshold of adulthood. Now he was on a hospital emergency ward, practically paralyzed and in a state of panic, with his family hundreds of miles away. Peter lived in one of the hospital dormitories. Again, he was the youngest, just as he'd been in the family. Peter was sent off to occupational therapy. Back in Cambridge, his classmates were studying the English Reformation and spending their weekends punting down the River Cam. Peter spent his time trying to figure out how to behave in the bizarre alternative universe in which he now found himself. In his second hospitalization, Peter Campbell was given the diagnosis of manic depression, a protean category that carries little information beyond the descriptive. In 1986, Peter helped to found Survivors Speak Out, an activist organization of people who've been in British mental institutions.
